That's Called Leeching Off Parents

Lynch was definitely unwilling; Advancement was his path. He might be willing to stay in Tingen if it would allow him to advance, but staying in Tingen would only keep him at Sequence 7, and he would have to leave again at Sequence 6.

Whether he leaves early or late, it doesn't really matter, so why does he want to stay here?

Leonard and Klein also declined, as they were determined to follow Dunn, so they both turned their attention to Frye.

Frye hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.

He is Corpse Collector Pathway, and the Church of the Goddess does not provide Corpse Collector with High Sequence Potion recipes, so it's fine for him to stay here as the captain.

The sudden departure of so many teammates made him feel slightly uncomfortable.

But it's better than all of my teammates dying.

Dunn looked at Frye gratefully. He needed to make arrangements for Tingen before leaving, otherwise he wouldn't feel at ease even after he left.

Frye was his chosen successor.

Lynch, Klein, and Leonard are all incredibly talented, and their careers couldn't possibly end in Tingen, so their departure was inevitable.

Only Frye had no path to Advancement and was stuck here.

This was the most appropriate choice, but Dunn still felt he had let Frye, since he should have continued to lead his teammates.

"It's okay, this day will come eventually."

Frye offered a brief word of comfort, indicating he accepted the situation well.

Then, without waiting for Dunn to say anything more, he went straight downstairs.

Is this to avoid embarrassing the captain?

Lynch shook his head with amusement. Frye was clearly cold on the outside but warm on the inside, even less eloquent than the captain.

Daly left shortly after arriving; she only took half a day off to speak with Dunn about this in person.

Of course, she also took the opportunity to make a sarcastic comment about Dunn.

Dunn actually used Daly's messenger to summon Daly in the middle of the night, and then read her love letter aloud to her face, stunning Daly so much that she almost lost control of her computer.

She thought Dunn had been replaced, otherwise how could he have read such a disgusting love letter?

At this point, Klein kept insisting that it was Dunn's own request and had nothing to do with him.

He was truly wronged.

After spending the morning reading in the archives, Lynch found nothing to do in the afternoon, so he made an excuse to slip away to Mr. Azik's residence.

Mr. Azik has resigned; all he needs to do now is come here.

When he arrived, Mr. Azik was having a meal. He immediately took a seat next to Mr. Azik and urged the maid to quickly prepare a meal for him as well.

"I'm starving! I didn't eat anything for lunch, I've been waiting to get here!"

Lynch unceremoniously took off his coat and tossed it to the manservant.

"Go wash your hands. That's the bad thing about your company; they don't even provide lunch. If you quit, you must come work for me, and I'll definitely provide lunch for you."

Mr. Azik subtly tried to undermine the security company, but Lynch pretended not to hear.

For Mr. Azik, that's not work; that's called sponging off one's parents.

He'll definitely be under Mr. Azik's watchful eye when he gets married and has children, and then he'll get the inheritance that Mr. Azik has managed to get for him, and live a life where he's just surviving.

It's alright, but it's definitely not as comfortable as it is now.

So Lynch pretended not to hear, went to wash his face and hands, took the towel from the servant and dried himself, and began to enjoy Mr. Azik's lunch prepared by Chef Balam.

After the meal, Lynch followed Mr. Azik to the study.

"You're leaving soon, and I'm so worried. What if someone tries to kill me and I don't have time to write a letter?"

As soon as he entered, he began to complain, appearing worried, afraid, and weak, which made Mr. Azik sit up straight.

"I will prepare some more extraordinary items for you..."

Lynch refused.

Mr. Azik prepared items for him with minimal negative effects, which also meant that the abilities weren't particularly strong; he wanted something powerful.

"I heard that Qilingus infiltrated Backlund Vice Admiral Hurricane. If I know his location, could you help me hunt him down? I want his extraordinary item, the Creeping Hunger. If possible, could you also give me his Beyonder Characteristic?"

This thing can sell for a lot of money outside!

Mr. Azik sighed. Poor child. His children used to have all sorts of good things readily available to them, but now Lynch can only scheme carefully, even wanting the trash in the hands of a mere Wind-blessed.

However, he didn't have any extraordinary items more suitable for Lynch at the moment. Just as Lynch said, if something happened to the child after he left, he would lose his last relative.

"Okay, let me know when you find out his location, and I'll go get it for you."

With business concluded, the remaining time was Lynch's own. Mr. Azik's valet had somehow acquired some fighting dogs, and they spent the entire afternoon gambling on who would win.

Mr. Azik has won big.

Luckily, he didn't gamble, otherwise Lynch felt he might have had to leave in his underwear today.

He lost all afternoon, which completely eradicated his meager gambling addiction.

Back home, Lynch had dinner with Melissa and the others, and chatted for a while. Seeing that Melissa was sleepy, he ended his banter with Benson and went back to his room to open a storybook.

He found that the novels in this world were quite interesting and a very effective way to pass the time.

Lynch had been reading a novel until midnight when he finally yawned, turned over, and drifted off to sleep.

He dreamt that the Evernight Goddess made him vomit up the Potion he had ingested, saying that he wasn't a true Sleepless and that he had deceived the Potion.

He felt extremely wronged, so he went to see Mr. Azik. It turned out that Mr. Azik had gotten together with the Evernight Goddess and had a child named Klein. He was told to vomit more and give the vomit to Klein.

He reluctantly spat it out and tried to feed it to Klein, but Klein wouldn't eat and ran around aimlessly. He kept chasing after him, and then he suddenly woke up to find that someone had invaded his dream.

Lynch's dream was immediately pulled back to his room, where he was holding a book on the occult, but the words on it were blurry and he couldn't see anything.

Is it the captain again?

Lynch put the book down and looked towards the door.

Sure enough, the doorbell rang.

He went over and opened the door.

It really was Dunn.

Just as he was wondering whether Dunn was going to take him to a buffet or to play cards, he saw Dunn walk into his house on his own, then take out a small notebook from his pocket and start reciting poetry to him.

Dunn recited ten poems in one go, Lynch thought they were all pretty good, but he was still confused.

Was Dunn reciting poetry to him to get his approval?

Should he clap his hands now?

He hesitated before raising his hand. Dunn seemed to misunderstand and reached out to shove the small notebook with the poem written on it into Lynch's hand.

"This is my recent takeaway. You memorized it in your dream, but once you leave, you'll forget about it. You'll only remember that you created these verses yourself. This will allow you to effectively play the role of Poet!"

Lynch:...

No, does the captain have some ulterior motive towards him?

Isn't this treating him too well?